Reached median fees of $8.67 on January 31, 2026 during a Bitcoin volatility event when Bitcoin fell more than 10% in a single day.

Devcon conference scheduled to take place in Mumbai, India from November 3-6, 2026.

A Matrixport-linked whale closed a long position of 89,001 ETH valued at $212.8M, realizing $24.86M in profit, and retains a 25,000 ETH long position valued at $58.5M with $8.2M in unrealized profit.

Open Interest increased by 45% over a 7-week period.

ETH price increased 8% on April 14, 2026, with cryptocurrency ETF inflows totaling $1.1 billion across the market.

OP Stack fault proofs upgraded to permissionless with finality now under 5 seconds on mainnet in Q1 2026.

OP Stack adopted by three major TradFi players in Q1 2026.

Ethereum ETFs recorded a net outflow of 780 ETH ($1.84M) on April 14, 2026.

On-chain activity reached near all-time high levels as of 2026-04-14.

Joined the Ethereum Audit Subsidy Program with Quantstamp and Areta as partners to connect builders with audits.

Staked ETH reaches all-time high level.

Experienced a vulnerability in the Hyperbridge gateway that allowed unauthorized minting of DOT tokens on Ethereum Mainnet.

ETH held on exchanges reached historic lows.

$5 billion in stablecoins flowed into the Ethereum network.

Tom Lee purchased $150M worth of ETH, holding over 4% of supply, targeting 5% ownership and an additional $450M deployment.

A major Hyperliquid trader closed long positions totaling approximately 62,000 ETH (valued at $227 million) on April 14, 2026, realizing $21.21 million in profit, while maintaining an open long position of 58,000 ETH valued at $138 million with $20.18 million in unrealized gains.

A whale/institution that accumulated $500 million in BTC and ETH in early February 2026 transferred 670 cbBTC ($50.11 million) to Coinbase on April 14, 2026, reducing their position while still holding 138,000 ETH ($330 million) and 3,000 cbBTC ($226 million).

Reached almost $200M in tokenized STRC on Ethereum.

Steve Aoki sold approximately $30,000 worth of ETH, closing out a years-long position.

Received approximately $1,556,000 in a cross-chain transfer from Arbitrum in 15 seconds via Polymer and LiFi protocol infrastructure.

Tether's technology is used by more than 570 million people globally as of March 2026.

Launches tether.wallet April 2026, a self-custodial wallet supporting Bitcoin (on-chain, Lightning, Spark), USD₮, USA₮, XAU₮ across Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Plasma, and Bitcoin/Lightning. Features gasless stablecoin/gold token transactions, supported by the new Tether app; Tron network not supported.

Received $187M in net inflows in the week prior to April 14, 2026, marking six consecutive weeks of positive inflows; acquired 72,000 ETH ($172M) in the two weeks ending that date.

Whale address 0x4553 swapped 24,564 ETH (~$58.34M) for 775.56 WBTC and 9.18 cbBTC at an ETH/BTC ratio of 0.0319 on April 14, 2026.

Trader 0x8844 purchased 4,093 ETH for $9.74M at $2,380 per ETH on 2026-04-14.

Included as one of 8 major chains in Nansen's $NX8 tokenized L1 index alongside BTC, HYPE, TRX, SUI, SOL, BNB, and AVAX, weighted by market cap with a 20% cap per token.

Serves as infrastructure for $12.6 trillion in repo markets.

Hyperliquid's largest long position holder closed 6,000 ETH long positions with realized profit of $7.76 million and maintains an open long position of 114,000 ETH valued at $272 million with unrealized profit of $34.4 million.

A trader with address 0x58bro holds a short position valued at $25M across BTC and ETH combined.

ERC-7715 is now live on Unichain, enabling agents and apps to request wallet permissions to execute transactions on a user's behalf via MetaMask.

ETF products experienced net outflows of $640 million since the start of 2026, representing a -5.18% decline against total AUM of $12.35 billion.

Pendle launched new markets on ethereum for Saturn USDat and sUSDat with maturity date of 2026-08-27

PT-USDG collateral launches on Aave V3 on ethereum

Reached $2,395 on April 14, 2026, up 8.5%, highest since February 2026, with price dominance against Bitcoin highest since January 2026.

Enabled as collateral for trading stock CFDs on Bybit, supporting 44 new listings including BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF (IBIT), ASTS, PSX, MANU, XLE, LIT, and URA.

Experienced net outflow of 1,812 ETH ($4.07 million) from BlackRock ETH ETF (ETHA) on April 13, 2026.

Posted 4,026 ETH ($9.5M) net inflows over the 7-day period ending April 14, 2026, with ETH spot ETFs posting $9.44M on April 13, 2026, for the third consecutive day, including BlackRock Staked ETH ETF (ETHB) $5.8M and Grayscale mini ETF $5.2M.

BlackRock Staked ETH ETF (ETHB) holds 229,959 ETH, with 174,059 ETH staked and 55,900 ETH unstaked.

Matrixport-linked whale closed 6,000 ETH ($14.34M), realizing $5.8M profit (combined with BTC positions), now holds 114,000 ETH ($272M) with $34.4M unrealized profits and 700 BTC ($52M).

A whale purchased 2,698.5 ETH for 1,265 XAUt ($5.95 million) at a price of $2,205 per ETH on April 13, 2026.

Fidelity Ethereum ETF recorded a daily inflow of $3.9 million on April 14, 2026.

Grayscale's ETHE product recorded zero net flow on April 13, 2026.

BlackRock added $234M in ETH during the week of April 7, 2026, investing in Ethereum as infrastructure for its tokenization business.

Ethereum spot ETF flows are negative $130M year-to-date as of April 13, 2026.

The number of wallets holding at least 100,000 ETH increased from 54 to 57 during the week ending April 13, 2026.

Processes approximately $8.5 trillion in stablecoin transfer volume per quarter.

Reached lowest USDT and USDC activity on Ethereum for 2026.

Plans to implement post-quantum cryptography upgrades.

Bridge deployed on Ethereum mainnet enabling wrapping and bridging of OCT tokens between Octra and Ethereum networks

AI agents will use Ethereum, not Solana, according to EMJX CEO Eric Jackson's analysis discussed on CoinDesk's Public Keys show.

Hosts over 50% of the top 25 tokenized U.S. T-bill funds by issuance.

Reduces deposit time from L1 to L2s and exchanges to as low as 13 seconds via Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR), available for ecosystem adoption.

ETFs recorded net inflows of 29,225 ETH ($64.41M) on April 13, 2026, and 44,575 ETH ($98.24M) over the preceding 7 days.

ETH-EKUBO liquidity pool on Ethereum receives $200,000 incentive program starting on 2026-04-15, distributed as $100,000 worth of ETH and $100,000 worth of EKUBO to liquidity providers over 6 months.

Ondo Finance filed SEC no-action request to record tokenized U.S. securities on Ethereum Mainnet, maintaining investor protections.

Aave V4 on Ethereum reached $13.5M in net TVL during its first 14 days following launch.

Integrated with Open Gas (ETHGasOfficial) to provide gas rebates for users who deposited ETH/wBTC or staked fxUSD/USDC with f(x) protocol in March 2026, with coverage continuing for April 2026 activities.

Serves as the bidding currency for the OCT token auction on Uniswap CCA, running until April 20, 2026.

Experienced significant selling pressure from Binance retail customers beginning in 2025, as evidenced by Proof-of-Reserves data showing a sharp decline in ETH holdings.

Transactions reached all-time highs April 12, 2026, driven by a mass address poisoning attack on mainnet that recorded 2.8 million native ETH transfers (100% increase from baseline).

BitMNR accumulated 71,524 ETH ($156.35M) April 6-12, 2026; its corporate treasury holds 4,874,858 ETH ($10.7B), 4.04% of ETH supply, with an average cost basis of $3,623, representing 81% toward its 5% goal and making it the largest corporate ether treasury globally.

Ethereum Mainnet received transactions from 137 active apps in the week ending April 13, 2026.

Bit Digital staked 29,900 ETH ($65.3M) on 2026-04-13 and has staked a total of 73,234 ETH ($156.64M) over the past week.

Large call option purchases were made on ETH during a weekend, with the largest being May 3.2k calls totaling $3.5m in premium, including a single position of 30k contracts at the 3.2k strike.

Officially classified as a commodity by the SEC in March 2026 alongside Bitcoin, Solana, and 13 other major tokens under a new five-tier framework.

Opened a $31,743,400 long position on ETH by a whale with a liquidation price of $2,142.

WETH is now usable as collateral on Aave to borrow MegaETH's USDm at an interest rate below 0.02%.

Opened a 25x leveraged short position on 6,700 ETH ($14.71M) at an entry price of $2,209, with liquidation at $2,218, during the week of April 7, 2026.

Exploited Hyperbridge's cross-chain message validation via missing input validation and a compromised admin key on April 13th, 2026, minting 1 billion unbacked wrapped DOT ($1.19B), extracting $250K ETH through DEX routes including Uniswap V4 and Odos due to shallow liquidity in the DOT-ETH pool, triggering $728K liquidations, and causing bridged DOT price to crash from $1.22 to near zero.

Exploited Hyperbridge's Polkadot bridge and Ethereum gateway contract on April 13, 2026, minting 1 billion fake DOT, draining 240,000 ETH, and prompting Hyperbridge to pause bridging operations; most fake DOT remained on Ethereum due to reserve tracking, preventing their use.

Scheduled ETHCapital conference on April 15, 2026 in Seoul, hosted by ETHGas, featuring Ethereum builders and institutional capital participants from Korea and Asia-Pacific.

Recorded $122 million in ETF inflows.

ICO-era whale sold 5,000 ETH for 11.01M USDC at $2,202 on April 13, 2026, in 30 minutes, realizing $1.09M profit.

hosts a free mint of 666 NFTs on 2026-04-16 for Take My Muffin project

Raised $165M in capital across projects in the ecosystem during Q1 2026.

Aerodrome and Velodrome are merging into "Aero," a unified Ethereum liquidity layer scheduled to launch in July 2026.

Trading with zero fees is available on ethcforg SwapBoard, with several offers below spot price.

Stakecito is expanding node infrastructure in collaboration with Stader Labs.

BlackRock reduced its Ethereum holdings from 3.47M ETH to 3.06M ETH (a decrease of 410,750 ETH) during Q1 2026.

Launches devnet for Glamsterdam upgrade scheduled for week of April 13, 2026; decreased Smooth fee for validators from 7% to 5% to improve solo staker economics.

Introduces a new EIP-2718 transaction type (0x08) that allows gas to be funded via a canonical ETH fee note using a Groth16 ZK proof, enabling transactions without requiring the sender EOA to hold publicly visible ETH.

A liquidity layer is moving to Ethereum mainnet as its canonical home, with a new token to be deployed on Ethereum mainnet after the migration from Base.

Reached a price level of $10,000.

Experienced a -30% price return during Q1 2026 (January 1 to March 31, 2026).

ERC-8211 draft proposal filed in February 2026, co-authored by Biconomy and the Ethereum Foundation, introducing dynamic execution plans for multi-step DeFi transactions that fetch live values at runtime instead of locking in numbers at signature time.

Surpassed $180 billion in stablecoin supply on Ethereum, holding 60% global market share, up 150% over 3 years.

Records $1.02 billion in DEX trading volume over the 24-hour period ending April 11, 2026.

Ethereum Foundation sold 1,250 ETH for $2.80M in DAI, stopped staking ETH for yield, and continues staggered selling.

Introduces a new EIP-2718 transaction type (0x07) allowing target contracts to pay transaction gas fees instead of senders, enforced via a canonical payer registry predeploy at address 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000013.

The Ethereum Foundation stopped staking ETH.

Cumberland withdrew 26,500 ETH ($59.52M) from OKX, Binance, Bybit, and Coinbase over a 12-hour period ending April 11, 2026. Reached $2,322 on April 13, 2026.

Saw ETH ETF net inflows of $64.9M on April 10, 2026, led by BlackRock's ETHA $53.70M and ETHB $8.10M, bringing weekly net inflows to $187M.

Ethereum Foundation sold 5,000 ETH for 11.11M DAI at an average price of $2,221 per ETH, with the final 1,250 ETH ($2.8M) sold on April 11, 2026.

Weekly revenue sits at $477K, down 99.9% from its 2021 peak of $421M. Recorded lowest quarterly revenue in Q1 2026.

Robinhood L2 is currently in testnet.

Reached 284,000 new users in Q1 2026, representing an 82% quarter-over-quarter increase.

Reached $33M in total value locked (TVL) across Ethereum, Starknet, Sophon and other chains through Noon Capital's staking products.

Charles Schwab plans to debut spot ETH trading by the end of Q2 2026 (on or before June 30, 2026).

BlackRock received 41,075 ETH ($92.1M) from Coinbase Prime on 2026-04-10.

Neutrl has reached 170 million USD in TVL on Ethereum.